Results List
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Rockefeller University
$29,800,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
$27,870,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Strategic Time Horizons in Philanthropy
Source: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Atlantic made a grant to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to conduct the following surveys, reports, guidance, and case studies on time-limited philanthropy and Giving While Living. Strategic time horizons–the length of time for which a philanthropic organization chooses to actively carry out its mission–have increasingly become…
Resource type: Research Report
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Gates Foundation intends to spend its $67 billion endowment ‘down to zero’ within 20 years of Bill and Melinda’s deaths
Source: Fortune
According to the Gates Foundation, billionaires need to start giving more of their money away—and not just to elite universities, but to high-impact causes that can change and save the most lives. The Gates Foundation, the world’s richest private foundation, is stepping up its own spending,…
Resource type: News
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Philanthropist Chuck Feeney’s generosity had ‘a profound impact’ on Ireland, memorial hears
Source: The Irish Times
By Sorcha Pollak Chuck Feeney was a tenacious, empathetic and inexhaustible man with an impatience for self-importance and a fundamental drive to invest in people’s talents, a memorial to the late Irish-American billionaire philanthropist has heard. Dozens of Mr Feeney’s family members gathered in Dublin’s Trinity…
Resource type: News
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US philanthropist’s transformative impact on University of Limerick
Source: Limerick Post
[caption id="attachment_83426" align="aligncenter" width="515"] UL President Professor Kerstin Mey and Dr Chuck Feeney's son, Patrick Feeney, with one of the signs on the Feeney Way[/caption] THE main thoroughfare on the University of Limerick campus has been renamed ‘Feeney Way’ to honour the ‘transformative impact’ philanthropist…
Resource type: News
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The global movement of displaced people is a defining feature of our times
Source: The Atlantic Fellows
Displacement is a global issue, driven by a confluence of intersecting historical and political factors. Yet today, the narratives surrounding it largely silence or vilify those who have become displaced, stoking nationalism and fear. With over 26 million refugees worldwide—half of them children—their voices that…
Resource type: News
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In Memory of Michael I. Sovern
[caption id="attachment_83034" align="alignright" width="250"] Photo: Columbia University[/caption] Atlantic mourns the loss of Michael I. Sovern, who passed away on Monday, January 20, 2020. Sovern served as a Director from 1995 until 2012, and was a long-term Chairman of the Audit and Budget Committee. Sovern was…
Resource type: News
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My Soul Has Grown Deep Like the Rivers
Source: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Closing Presentation of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE) Panel at The National Museum of African American History and Culture By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Emily Hargroves Fisher Research Professor of Education Harvard University Director of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Board What an extraordinary evening! Thank you to…
Resource type: News
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George Washington University Announces Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
Source: The George Washington University
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2019) – The George Washington University (GW) today announced the renaming of the GW Health Workforce Institute to the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. The action was taken to honor Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, a professor of health policy and management…
Resource type: News